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Robyn Dickinson is thrilled that two items of clothing she and her siblings played dress up with as children is now at an exhibition at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Solomon isn’t entirely sure where all her creations are these days. There are panels in different marae throughout Murihiku, at Anderson Park, the Te Hikoi Museum in Riverton and at schools. And then there are the pieces she’s given to students as teaching aids, and the pieces she sold from the family s old shop in Queenstown. “Half of the time I don’t know where they are until I walk into a room,” she said. Solomon (Ngā Pūmanawa e Waru, Ngāti Rongomai) had learned weaving as a child, but fell in love with the craft during a visit to the Whaiora Marae in Ōtara.
The article was quite scathing, saying his excellency “did not take the slightest notice” of the 40 to 50 horsemen who had gathered by the roadside, and did not deign to say a word to the volunteers who had formed the guard of honour and waited more than five hours for Fergusson in the sun, in uniform. The governor didn’t attend a luncheon organised in his honour. His relative George Fergusson lives in the UK and on Wednesday, he read a
Southland Times story online regarding Reddy visiting Riverton on Thursday that on her itinerary was to made amends for James Fergusson’s snub in 1874.